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Acoustic maestro Newton Faulkner is releasing a cover of Massive Attack’s classic single Teardrop.

First reaction: how is a dreadlocked singer/songwriter type going to pull off this song without becoming a public enemy?

Answer: Faulkner does an awesome job.

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The blurb on Faulkner’s website would lead you to believe that his musical style is breaking major new ground. “What?s that sound?”, they gush, “It?s acoustic guitar like we?ve never heard it before. It?s things done to six strings that will boggle the ears and eyes.”

They witter on about Faulkner’s ‘tapping’ style like Eddie Van Halen didn’t popularize that nearly 30 years ago. But then musician websites are notoriously full of bullshit like that. Read & comment »